shingle

Plural: shingles

Noun

building material used as siding or roofing
coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel)
a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g.
A small, thin piece of building material, often with one end thicker than the other, for laying in overlapping rows as a covering for the roof or sides of a building.
A rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel.
A small signboard designating a professional office; this may be both a physical signboard or a metaphoric term for a small production company (a production shingle).
A word-based n-gram.
A punitive strap such as a belt.
Any paddle used for corporal punishment.
Small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach.

Verb

Verb Forms: shingled, shingling, shingles

To cover a roof or wall with shingles.
cover with shingles
- "shingle a roof"
To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles.
To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, like shingles on a roof.
To increase the storage density of (a hard disk) by writing tracks that partially overlap.
To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.
To beat with a shingle.

Examples

He tried to shingle his way to victory, but his tiles just didn’t connect.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English shyngel, alteration of Old English sċindel, from Proto-West Germanic *skindulā, borrowed from Late Latin scindula, from Latin scandula, from Proto-Indo-European *sked- (“to split, scatter”), from *sek- (“to cut”). Doublet of shindle.

Synonyms

shake

Scrabble Score: 11

shingle: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
shingle: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
shingle: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 13

shingle: valid Words With Friends Word